Two weeks ago took place in Ploiesti one day Calvary Chapel Conference. Our desire and prayer were to bring with us as many as we can our gypsy brothers and sisters. The theme of teachings was Grace, and seemed to us one of the best things they could hear, and understand better. We offered the invitation to all who come to our fellowship on regular basis. They all were very excited about this invitation and expressed their desire to come. In the end because we couldn’t find a van (with a lower cost) to rent we had to use our old car and Fery’s old, old car to go. We could take with us only five gypsies (two men and three women and a child) and prayed that the Lord will have His hand upon the cars and make them run safe, and they did, praise the Lord!

We travelled the hole night (about ten hours), we were very tired, but the fellowship with our brothers and sisters was a refreshing and blessed time. For our family it is a blessing to be able to just seat and worship and listen to the teaching, and have fellowship with brothers. The hole winter we were not able to be in a church service beside the ministry that we have here in the villages. Since last month, we started to go every second week in Cluj to Calvary Chapel that is there, since the day is longer and we have enough time to drive back home and go after for church service in Sacuieu, one of the gypsy village we minister in.

For our gypsies who came with us in Ploiesti this time was a real exposure to the Calvary Chapel movement. We tried to tell them before how is the church that we come from, but their thinking is very narrow, because most of them never were in a church before. They were able to meet other Christian gypsies, who were very different from them, using the Romanian type of closing, and who were speaking most of them only Romanian language. They were able to talk to each other. It was interesting to hear how surprised both groups were about how God worked in the other gypsy tribes. Our gypsies were encouraged to hear that the others are Christians for ten years.

Even though it was very difficult to take this trip and come back the next night, we are very content that God provided the means, and we are praying that it will use for building the faith of all the gypsies, also we are praying that the Lord will grant us more opportunities of this kind.

This summer, in June, there will be the Eastern Europe Calvary Chapel Conference in Hungary. We are praying that the Lord will provide the finances for the transportation and conference fee, for our family to go there. Our children are looking foreword to meet again the other missionaries’ children and participate at the children classes. Please, pray with us if it is God’s will for us to go there, to be able to do so.

Thank you again for all your prayers and support, and may God bless you!

In His Grace,

Hagiu Family